| 单词 | railway king |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrailway king (b) spec. A man regarded as having power or control in a particular industry or area of commerce; a magnate. Frequently with modifying word, as cotton king, fur king, railway king, etc. Cf. baron n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] > chief of its or his kind sunOE lordOE princec1225 primatec1384 princessc1390 giant1535 queen1554 first gentleman1584 Prester John1598 arch1605 gigant1610 principate1651 top-stone1659 first lady1677 Shakespeare1821 king1829 prius1882 aristocrat1883 Sun King1971 1829 T. Steele Analyt. Expos. Absurdity & Iniquity Oaths 78 Mr. Peel will be as little remembered as any of the ‘cotton Kings’. 1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 154 Here the fur-kings of the North-West lived and spent their profits in generous hospitality. 1894 Outing 23 380/2 Relics of the palmy days of the old sugar kings of Jamaica. 1907 Current Lit. Apr. 393/1 One thing to their credit may be said of the railway kings of to-day: they are not railroad wreckers. 1943 G. Seldes & H. Seldes Facts & Fascism ii. 22 Thyssen, who had feared the collapse of his empire, came out king of coal and steel again. 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. i. 22 Her father had become the shoe king, owning a chain of shoe stores all over the east. 2015 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 31 May 20 The casting director of Miami Vice..asked me to play a drug king. < as lemmas |
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